Impact of overall treatment time on survival and local control in patients with anal cancer: a pooled data analysis of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group trials 87-04 and 98-11.
Impact of overall treatment time on survival and local control in patients with anal cancer: a pooled data analysis of Radiation Therapy Oncology Group trials 87-04 and 98-11.
E. Ben-Josef,J. Moughan,7 Authors,C. Willett
2010 · DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.29.1351
Journal of Clinical Oncology · 173 Citations
TLDR
Total treatment time, but not duration of radiation therapy, seems to have a detrimental effect on local failure and colostomy rate in anal cancer.